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Extravagant Bodies: Extravagant Age (SET)

Inspiring Gold Age - Body and Mind on the Fringes of Social Norms

Extravagant Bodies is an international art festival that has been taking place since 2007, once every three years, dealing with social determination of the borders between the normal and the pathological, be they concerned with corporeality, appearance, behaviour, sexuality or life style. The fact that there exists the other, that is, different than the socially codified and acceptable, provokes negative identification, social rejection, sanctions, fear and hatred. In its first version, the festival dealt with physical disability, in the second with mental and psychological health, while the theme of this year’s festival – Extravagant Bodies: Extravagant Age – is old age, or the individual experiences and social implications of what is dubbed the third age. Age is not, of course, considered a disorder, but an ineluctable part of every life that is not cut short by premature death. However, because of the health-related, physical and psychological changes that it entails, and because of the fact that age leads ultimately to death, old age, together with its signs, provokes abjection, comparable to the abjection related with the body or mind situated beyond social norms.

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Ivana Bago, Sunčica Ostoić - Intro
Stevan Vuković - Performing Age in Gerontology and Visual Art
Linn Sandberg - The Old, the Ugly and the Queer: thinking old age in relation to queer theory
Pat Thane - The Age of old Age/Old age in the 20th Century
Silvia Federici - The Great Witch hunt in Europe
Kathleen Woodward - Tribute to the older woman. Psychoanalysis, feminism, and ageism
Marko Stamenković - Extravagant suicide? Images of aging, suffering and End-of-life
Gary Shapiro - Building, Timing, Thinking: Reversibile Destiny After Hegel, Heidegger and Smithson
Miško Šuvaković – Age/Art: Being/Time. Between techniques of representation and
techniques of mastering the forms of life
Ana Peraica – Time travel and photographic negatives: theory of post-negative world
Kelly Joyce, Laura Mamo – Greying the cyborg: new directions in feminist analyses of aging,
science and technology
Nina Czegledy – On prosthetics: Extreme loss – potential gains
Goran Arbanas – Sexuality in advanced years
Alison Marie Kenner – Securing the elderly body: dementia, surveillance and the politics of
„aging in place“
Silvia Rusac – The challenges of caring for a family member afflicted with Alzheimer's
disease
Jasminka Despot Lučanin, Damir Lučanin – Changes in cognitive capacities in old age
Silvia Rusac – Domestic violence and the elderly
Oldest competing bodybuilder – world record set by Ray Moon
Sanja Radica, Andrea Šimunović – What we talk about when we think about aging? (Or what
are we actually afraid of?)
Damir Lučanin, Jasminka Despot Lučanin – Theories of aging and growing old successfully
David E. Bloom, AlexBorsch-Supan, Patrick McGee i Atsushi Seike – Population aging:
facts, challenges and responses
Aubrey de Grey – After the war on aging: speculations on some future chapters int he
never-ending story of human life extension
Franco Berardi Bifo – Exhaustion and senile utopia of the coming European insurrection
David Albahari – Short stories about old age; Poems about old age